Canadian Music Week will honour our Chief Membership Officer
Plus two others; Fortunate Ones also win three awards
Also Pop Artist of the Year at WCMAs, held during BreakOut West
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A day in the crazy-busy life of longtime broadcaster
“I dig up what we don’t see in people”
Montréal producer offers a peek at her diary
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How to increase your chances of applying successfully
Peak experiences at 2018 SOCAN Song Camp
Securing Your Band Name
All Sound Advice »
Currently lobbying government on several key issues
Adapting to constant, disruptive technological shifts
De nombreux changements et innovations
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Words + Music is the online magazine of SOCAN, the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada. Just as SOCAN was formed in 1990 by the merger of its predecessor Canadian performing rights organizations PROCAN and CAPAC, their separate magazines merged in 1994 to form Words + Music. Our mission is to provide interesting, high-quality content about the increasingly exciting and
A ‘90s rock vibe album, then more focus on songwriting
SOCAN Songwriting Prize Winners discusses their process
Jordan Benjamin is angry, and he wants you to hear it
Family band’s teen sons garage-rock the house
Band pokes fun at fragile egos of music world
Bonnie Dobson will perform it at 2018 Mariposa Folk Festival
Exploring tension, unifying disparate recordings
Band launches ninth album, just shy of 30th anniversary
Trying to write songs as good as classic rock
She sings about love and death with stunning poetry
Artist faces his demons on Plaza
With Felt album, Montréal quartet takes a new turn
“I’ll have succeeded when I’m the one people think of,...
Fueled by first-person songs of experience
Award-winning duo of 15-year-olds already growing from folk ...
Suburban band has big dreams
A radical sonic leap forward
Heartbreak at the heart of the cult band’s reunion
For songs that bring us closer in, toward reconciliation